A blog on desert arabian horses, past, present and future
Khalid Rakhlani’s Facebook page “Arabian Horses in Syria” has a nice photo of Khaldee (al-Khaldi) that I had not seen before, courtesy of Sha’lan al-Ahmad Khaldee is the most prominent stallion in modern Syrian breeding.
Mostly a note to myself.. I finally found a document that establishes the breeder of Krush Juhayyim, the foundation stallion of modern Syrian Arabian horsebreeding. A breeding certificate mentions that the sire of a grey ‘Ubayyah mare is “Krush Juhayyim from the marbat of al-Abd al-Muhsin (Sattam al-Hawwas)”. Sattam is the son of Hawwas the … Read more
Lady is the very last Al Khamsa mare from the female line of Ferida of Lady Anne Blunt. Hers is one of the glorious lines of American Arabian horse breeding. She is 24 this year, and will likely not get pregnant anymore, but I have four frozen embryos from her. This is as good a … Read more
This young mare (b. 2016, so I guess not that young anymore) can look pretty when she wants to..
A photo of the young Jadah BelloftheBall “Belle”, with her dam Belladonna CHF, at her owner’s Mary Sue Harris in 2002. Photo by Randall Harris.
I am scanning old photos, and these two from the Syrian Kuhaylan al-Khdili stallion Sa’ad Al-Thani (Al-Aawar x Leelas) emerged from the lot. I am happy he has a tail male going, with Dahjani Al Arab in France and Abul Hol in Syria, a Kuhaylan al-Mimrah (#1857 in the Syrian Studbook). Photos taken in 1995 … Read more
A photo of the desert-bred mare and Davenport import *Wadduda I had not seen before. Not a single surviving photo has done justice to this mare. PS — Jamr is a direct female descendant of *Wadduda.
… and so does the beautiful young girl that inspired it. I love searching the DOW archives for mid-January blog entries to see how much my older daughter has grown over the years.
This is a stylish stallion with a superb pedigree and very clean pedigree. The fact that I recall most of his ancestors in the fifth and sixth generations must mean that I am getting old.. I remember Adeelah, Obeirah, Mokhtar, Maseh, Al Kahirah, Mobarak at Basil’s, Marzouq, Aseelah, and their son Shaddad at Kamal Abdel … Read more
The Arabian Horse Archives, a project which this blog supports, has an online digitized copy of Cecil Covey’s 1982 booklet “Crabbet Arabians”. It features a photo of Ibn Yashmak I had not seen before. Now I see why the Blunts imported him from Egypt to use him on their Crabbet mares.
Jeanne Craver recently shared with me these threephotos of the 1967 mare Nauwas (Al Khobar x *Muhaira), an Ubayyah from the strain of Ibn Jalawi of Easter Arabia. The photos are from/by George Hooper, who had owned Nauwas in her later years. An article I had written some fourteen years ago on this blog featured … Read more
Frolicking in the Wisconsin snow at her new owner’s Moira Walker.
Warriors of the past and warriors of the present. Gender roles reversed. Two radically different worlds side by side. Today both worlds interact through the desert Arabian horse. The median breeder of desert Arabians in the US is a woman, while young Bedouin men are claiming back their old horse heritage.
Richard Pritzlaff riding. Photo gleaned off the internet, without a source. Rabanna, like her contemporary the Doyle mare Gulida, is a boon for any breeder to have in the pedigree of their horses. So much of the real Abbas Pasha blood in these two mares. Much gratitude for dedicated breeders like Sheila Harmon and others … Read more